Top 10 Reasons why riders don't wave back.

Top Ten Reasons Why Harley Riders Don’t Wave Back

10. Afraid it will invalidate warranty

9. Leather and studs make it too heavy to raise arm

8. Refuse to wave to anyone whose bike is already paid for

7. Afraid to let go of handlebars because they might vibrate off

6. Rushing wind would blow scabs off the new tattoos

5. [...]

Asheville scooterjacker gets 8 years in scooter attacks

remember the crazy rash of assaults on scooterists in and around Asheville, a couple years ago?

Leicester man gets 8 years in scooter attacks | citizen-times.com | Asheville Citizen-Times.

“Brett Roger Griffin, 22, of Israel Road, pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous [...]

in which other scooterists are more dangerous than cars sometimes

great. that’s great.

old fart on some POS no name buddy looking f’in thing goes 32 mph all the way up cherry creek, and i mean ALL THE WAY up cherry creek, so i pass him at my usual speed, which is the speed limit, 40 on this road, to get to colorado blvd. when i [...]

Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child – Broadsheet – Salon.com

Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child .

really, that’s all there is to say.

he is a child rapist. he ought to be listed and punished as a sex offender. not because punishment rehabilitates–it certainly doesn’t; and not even because anyone who is prone to rape children would pay any attention to his being made a big [...]

recent zeitgeist in a nutshell

the prez: SMRT.

joe wilson: you can take the boy out of the trailer park, but good ol’ joe has made it amusingly evident that you can’t take the trailer park out of the boy.

Drudge has officially hit the bottom of the barrel, even for muckraking.

children are growing more stupid, the planet is absurdly overpopulated, 2012 [...]

GoGo gear fashion show – chicago

it’s part of Acetoberfest

I would totally go just to see the fashion.

in other news, i’m now 34, a p0rnstar, and the proud owner of an oscillating dremel and some new mirrors for Il Putto.

tia Tia gave me a beautiful nouveau-style card case (cough) which i love.

and i’m never buying anything from [...]

Top 10 Best Graphic Novels – Being Turned Into Movies

sick of hollywood’s nauseating creative bankruptcy? does the sheer cavil of subcultural co-opting going on on a massive scale make you want to fling yourself from the nearest piece of corporate sculpture? then put your climbing shoes on, brothers and sisters!

Top 10 Best Graphic Novels – Being Turned Into Movies

i personally think i’d rather push [...]

how not to talk to girls

our office unit is next door to this ‘placement agency’ where they, in simplest terms, train MBA-tards how to sell themselves as MBA non-tards.

we frequently cross paths in the hallways, bathrooms, et c. – these are the sort of people who don’t know how to flush properly, if you want to know. the sort of [...]

in which left bank scooters: shady or intriguing? or both?

another reason to visit paris, in case you don’t have enough already:

Rent a Vespa, See Paris by Scooter.

that’s right, you can perform feats of death-defying daredevilism with the COMPLETELY INSANE paris traffic on an LXV125, as long as you’re over 30 (?) (what?) (weird and arbitrary), and willing to give money to people who think [...]

stuff white people like, on vespas

$him ran across this a few days ago and entertained me aloud with it, and i meant to repost it, and i spaced it: see previous entry.

at any rate, i hope this amuses all my not-necessarily-as-white-as-all-that friends and colleagues. if this is you and you also ride, feel free to point and laugh. if this [...]

near-death experience, edition 289

yeah, i undertook a relatively unnecessary errand, as we scooterists are wont to do, around nightfall, and some braying jackass in –imagine! — an SUV almost creamed me on the corner of race and 14th. because, you know, i was stopped there waiting for traffic to break, and he wanted to take a real oblique [...]